In the city, I just got off my flying sword and I'm saddled with a mountain of loan-shark debt.
The great financial conglomerates have sucked dry the spiritual energy and sell it for profit. You have to pay property fees to cultivate immortality, and even the debt collectors who show up at your door are zombies wearing employee badges.
Luckily, Li Daoxu awakened the "Catalogue of All Things' Attributes."
In everyone else's eyes, they're invincible treasures and peerless formations. To him, they're all just attributes he can casually pry off.
"Young Master Jin, mind if I borrow your Black Tortoise armor fragment for a touch?"
"What the hell! Where did my absolute defense go? Why is that brick in your hand glowing?"
Years later, the sect's founding ancestor emerges from seclusion, ready to suppress this menace disrupting the market.
Li Daoxu silently pulls out a piece of construction debris labeled [100% Hit] [Ignores Defense] [Extreme Dizziness].
"Ancestor, times have changed. Take this brick!"